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One punch in a fight outside a Licking County bar will cost a man eight years of his life. The
cost to the victim was much greater.

Common Pleas Judge David Branstool sentenced Jamie Calendine, 36, of Somerset in Perry County,
to eight years on Wednesday for involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence after he
pleaded no contest to both counts last month.

Calendine was charged with punching Shane Hillis in the head outside the Mill Dam Bar in Hebron
on Nov. 24, 2012. When police arrived, they found Hillis unconscious in the parking lot.

Hillis, 40, of Thornville in Perry County, was taken to Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark and
then to OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus, where he remained in a coma until he died on
Jan. 4, 2013.

Calendine was arrested on felonious-assault charges. They were upgraded to murder after Hillis’
death.

Calendine was freed on bond in December 2012, but a urine sample submitted two months ago as a
condition of his bond had been altered.

Calendine admitted to providing a false sample because he was afraid of testing positive for
heroin, Assistant Prosecutor Brian Waltz said. Calendine was charged with tampering with
evidence.

Calendine was sentenced to five years on the involuntary-manslaughter count and three years on
the tampering count, to be served consecutively.